A large-scale cyber-attack that crippled banks and television broadcasters in
South Korea came from an internet address in China, a preliminary report has
revealed.

Hackers yesterday paralysed the computer networks of five South Korean banks
and a media company in an attack immediately suspected to have originated in
North Korea, which has issued increasingly threatening rhetoric against its
southern neighbour in recent weeks.

Officials in Seoul said this morning that they had traced the malicious code
that infiltrated its servers as coming from a Chinese IP address, although
they said that it was too early to identify the exact source.